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Windows 7: Ram Issue / Half Usage

Hello,
I posted over at Tom's and no one has a clue what is wrong with my PC, so I thought I would try here.

A few nights ago I was playing my modded Skyrim, something I been doing for 2 years on this rig and at one point I looked over at my Task Manager and seen my CPU was at 100% and my ram was at 50%. With my Skyrim build it is the other way around. I use a ENB, 2k textures and 300+ mods.

So I shut it down and checked a few things. After toying around with it, I figured a driver or file got corrupted during one of my game crashes. It had been over a year since I did a fresh install of windows, so I did a reformat and new install. After updating all my drivers and getting my PC up to par I was still getting my ram and vram capping out around the 50% mark, sometimes higher.

I am getting artifacts and shutters now in game and my PC is not using all of my ram or vram. Nor will it even boot my heavy modded game due to the lack of ram.

My loads are heavier when I normally run Skyrim, close to 8gb total (Ram+vram-1024). Just not sure if it is an Mobo issue or what at this point. I have to wait a month to be able to replace anything but would like to single out what "IT" is that I do need to replace. Any help would be great! If I left anything out just give me a heads up.

Well; to start with something simple; I would try closing out any background programs you know you dont need and try running it again and see what happens. If that does not solve the issue; post back and we can go from there.

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